Raw LLM Responses

Hot take but I think the tendency for us is to see the thing, be impressed, and then be disgusted when we find out that it's AI and either get turned away until we get caught in a trap again or try to denounce it and just say it's bad despite the effect it has on others and that it might have on us on the first viewing, which is what most people will judge by, and I can definitely relate to the feeling but I don't see that ending well with the most truthful and well rounded awareness in all parties. I think if we flip the script and go against all the instincts, saying "what's the best we could do with this" we would gain a strong familiarity with the systems and find out they're not that OP or a cure-all or equalizer that makes it impossible for our work to be seen as valid in regular art. There's sort of a notion in the community that it'll cripple us, so we're scared of it, so we don't address it and dig into those fears, but it means we don't disprove them, and we don't find where the balance is and how to overcome or whether we can overcome this seemingly all powerful career ending machine. Personally I think the more you see of it and the more you see what to look for in artifacting, the more instinctively solid the judgement becomes about whether it's AI or not, and since it goes by statistics, it'll probably continue failing in understanding causality, and regardless, ART art is mostly defined by judgement, which the AI doesn't have. It's not making decisions about how to convey a message or an idea well to other people, or filtering out any results by some metric of quality, and I don't trust that the majority of artists who really care about that are going to go to AI as their first port of call, so there's a sort of natural sociological divide there. What I see it most likely doing, hypothetically, is being used by big corpos that want the cheapest route to the most non-offensive, lizard brain appealing marketing or "art", but even then, businesses go for stability and AI is kind of wacky, and I think the common people would catch on if that was all they were seeing day in and day out, not to mention it would piss off a lot of people who care about the issue. Basically the narrative just won't work if it's "we should cut down AI because it's too good and that hurts us" so I think we would do well to play devil's advocate more often and understand each piece of the puzzle, and just give other people the understanding they would need to be educated in making their own judgements from then on. Not be scared to engage with something that we might see as a death sentence because it's all too human to feel like being aware of problems is what creates the problems, and not get angry with the people that aren't as particular as us and don't come from a background that makes them care yet